Improvement in wire barbed fences



A. M. MUNSON. Wire-Barbed Fence.

No. 214,417. Patented April 15,1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW M. MUNSON, OF LEE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE BARBED FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,41 7, dated April15, 1879 application filed January 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW M. MUNSON, of Lee, in the county of Lee andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWire Barbed Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a section of a barbed fence-wire embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is adetailed similar view of one of the double loops for holding the barbs;and Fig. 3 is a like view of one of the prickingbarbs detached from thelooped wire.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters.

This invention appertains to certain im provements in barbed-wirefences; and it consists in the forming of the wire with loops, arrangedin pairs, into which loops are inserted twopronged wire barbs, withtheir pointed or sharpened prongs projecting from opposite sides of thefence, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, A refers to a section of fence-Wire manufactured of theusual thickness. This section or wire A is formed at suitable intervalsupon its surface somewhat after the form of an S, imparting to the wirea series of pairs of loops, at a, upon opposite sides thereof, as shown.

This method is one adopted for the present instance, although it isevident that this arrangement of the loops may be modified with outavoiding the spirit of my invention.

B B are a number of two-pron ged wire barbs, there being two to the samenumber of loops, with their sharpened or pointed prongs passing throughthe loops at a, and extending or projecting from opposite sides and fromthe upper and lower surfaces of the wire, so as to effectually arm this.After the barbs B have been inserted through the loops at 0, theirpoints or prongs are bent at a right angle to each other, that part orpoint of each pair which passes through the same loop being bent inopposite directions, as shown more clearly in Fig. 1, which will retainthe barbs firmly in their loops without possibility of their beingaccidentally displaced or becoming detached.

This invention is exceedingly simple, easy to manufacture, andconsequently cheap.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As an improvement in barbed wire for fences, thecombination, with the wire A, bent so as to form a series of loops, a 0,arranged in pairs, with the loops of each pair formed upon oppositesides of the wire, of the barbs B B, inserted through the said loops, inthe manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW M. MUNSON.

Witnesses:

N ELS BEAN, W. F. FORBES.

